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A proposed ban on mascots, logos, and names depicting Native Americans in Illinois public schools is one step closer to ...
Everything is being named for the people who were here before,” local school-board President Kerry Wachter said of the ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Illinois House on Thursday passed a bill that would ban schools from using Native American ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A monumental bill to ban Illinois schools from using Native American names, logos, and mascots passed out of the House after a controversial debate Thursday.
The Illinois House has approved a bill that would ban portrayals of Native Americans in school logos, names and mascots, and ...
The bill points out specific mascots and names like “Redskins, Braves, Chiefs, Chieftains, Tribe, Indians, or any synonymous ...
SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots ...
Two Jo Daviess County, Ill., school district superintendents have expressed opposition to an Illinois House bill that would ...
Furious school-board members in the Long Island town are asking President Trump to help them fight to keep their district’s Native American logo after a judge recently ruled against them in ...
(WGN) — The Illinois House of Representatives passed House Bill 1237 Tuesday, a piece of legislation that aims to prohibit Illinois K-12 schools from using a Native American name, logo or mascot.
SPRINGFIELD — Following a wave of schools and professional sports teams over the last 20 years scaling back usage of Native American-themed names, imagery, mascots and logos, the Democrat-led ...